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A Good Run<br />
It’s a silver anniversary, a big number<br />
to attain, an accomplishment of<br />
which to be proud: for 25 years,<br />
I penned this Viewpoint column in<br />
Trucker’s Connection magazine. And<br />
this will be my last. But all good things<br />
must come to an end.<br />
When I started as an assistant editor<br />
at Trucker’s Connection in 1994, I<br />
knew very little about magazines and<br />
publishing; I never fancied myself a<br />
writer. I knew even less about trucking.<br />
A scant month after graduating college,<br />
I found myself in the Publisher/<br />
Owner’s office for what I deemed “interview<br />
practice” as I had absolutely<br />
no interest in taking the job. I’d been<br />
pursued by the then-editor who had<br />
gotten my resume from our internship<br />
office. It was not something I’d<br />
sent or pursued, but when he called<br />
me for the 20th or so time, I agreed<br />
to come in just for the practice—you<br />
know, so I’d be ready for the interview<br />
for my dream job whenever it came<br />
around. Whenever I determined what<br />
my dream job was.<br />
I arrived in my best dress, equipped<br />
with answers to all the classic interview<br />
questions I was told to expect:<br />
What’s your greatest strength, what’s<br />
your greatest weakness, if you could<br />
be any animal, what would you be<br />
and why? I sat across from the owner,<br />
a man who clearly did not recall or<br />
8 TRUCKER’S CONNECTION www.TruckersConnection.com
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